Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EC Commission President , Jacques Delors , is calling for closer European unity despite worries over the future of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 2 | ‘ It seems after he decided to pull me off , he looked back and decided on different reasons for things over the years to stir up our relationship . ’ |
| 3 | Inland changes to sites over the last 1000 years do not seem to have been so drastic . |
| 4 | Although the shareholders no longer exercised the direct control of principals over the directors as their agents , the model nevertheless asserts that any danger that the directors might use their considerable discretionary powers to manage the business in their own interest is precluded . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have taken place with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees over the last month . |
| 6 | There seems to have been no clear trend in earnings over the period up to the rapid triumph of machine spinning after 1800 ; in the West of England rates per pound of wool spun were only marginally higher in the 1770s than in the century 's first decade . |
| 7 | Each judge will submit a completed list of nominations over the next couple of weeks and the eventual winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony early in the new year . |
| 8 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 9 | Frightened off by such high figures , many collectors renounce the attempt to assemble a complete range of bindings over the centuries and , sensibly , turn to more limited fields ; for example , to books stamped with the coats of arms or crests of early owners in gilt or ‘ blind ’ ( without gold or colour ) . |
| 10 | Secondary double glazed window with views over the golf course . |
| 11 | In the preceding arguments I have deliberately used the term ‘ enterprise democracy ’ to refer to democratic control by workers over the enterprises which employ them , within the context of the socialist project . |
| 12 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |
| 13 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |
| 14 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 15 | " Our objective is to test the law on the system of consents , by which companies are allowed to discharge limited amounts of pollutants over the course of a year " , explained a Greenpeace spokeswoman , Debbie Adams . |
| 16 | Check opening times with hostels over the winter period . |
| 17 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 18 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 19 | With the introduction of general management , an attempt has been made to address the clinician-management interface directly and to challenge formally , at least in theory , the tight grip of doctors over the NHS as an organisation . |
| 20 | And the third factor was the splintering of the collective voice of the Chiefs of Staff as decision-making swung away from operational problems to arguments over the Defence programmes . |
| 21 | We have however entered a large number of competitions over the years : the FA Cup , FA Vase , County Shield , Debenhams Floodlit Cup and the Sherpa Tensing Van Trophy to name but a few . |
| 22 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 23 | CAR firms including Ford , Vauxhall and Peugeot are having urgent talks with insurers over the soaring cost of premiums on many of their high performance models . |
| 24 | In a remarkable series of investigations over the past four years , the MMC has examined the practices in beer , petroleum , and motor vehicle supply . |
| 25 | People also experience radically unequal patterns of earnings over the span of their working lives as employees . |
| 26 | Restorative proctocolectony with end to end pouch-anal anastomosis in patients over the age of fifty |
| 27 | There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills . |
| 28 | The key to a healthy , nourishing diet for children is variety — aim to give your child a good range of foods over the course of a week or so and you can be pretty certain she 'll get the nutrients she needs . |
| 29 | This gradual build-up of reps over the first 3 sessions will reduce the amount of stiffness and soreness experienced in the muscles at the start of the programme . |
| 30 | Despite this minimal preparation , and regular changes of personnel over the past fortnight , they achieved a wholly implausible blend of skill , aggression and indomitable spirit . |